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Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University

Hello everyone. I’m Alex Usher and this is the World of Higher Education Podcast. One of the hardest things in comparative international higher education studies is getting a sense of how other countries’ systems actually work. If you look at statistical compendiums – say, OECD’s Education at a Glance – there is a tendency to imagine all systems as identical because they all in one way or another push out a similar palette of outputs: bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, doctorates,

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September 21, 2023 No Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Sept. 15th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, In the planning of our series of AI Roundtable meetings, we at HESA towers are currently hoping to host a session on student perspectives during the month of November. We’d appreciate your help in connecting us with student leaders from your institutions that would be open to share their views on how AI is impacting higher education. We’re looking for diverse perspectives, including voices from graduate students. Let us know if you think of anyone by

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September 15, 2023 No Comments

Romanian Higher Education

Romania isn’t a country that gets a lot of attention outside southeast Europe.  But it should.  And I am not just saying that because of my well-known overfondness for the country’s sausage rolls and pufuleti. In terms of economic growth, it lies only slightly behind Poland in its performance over the last 15 years, and in terms of politics it has an admirably liberal president in Klaus Iohannis and a political culture which is remarkably calm compared to neighbours like

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September 14, 2023 No Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Sept. 8th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, I hope that the first week back on campus was a good one.  Earlier in August, we, at HESA towers, sent a survey to provosts and VPAs to get a better sense of where institutions were at with respect to building policies and guidelines regarding AI. (We’re still collecting answers, so if you had forgotten about it and it’s been lying around in your email box, you can still get to it.) From the early answers

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September 8, 2023 No Comments

Selective Schools and Holistic Admissions

Hi Everyone. I’m Alex Usher and welcome to the World of Higher Education podcast. This is our first pod back from summer break. And although it’s back to school time for the entering class of 2023, it’s also when final year secondary school students in North America have to start thinking about the process of applying for fall 2024. Even though the next class is a year away, the recruitment, application and admissions cycle is already in high gear. In most of the

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September 7, 2023 No Comments
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